Finding the Right Enterprise DaaS for You!

In a world of smartphones, tablets, and laptops, employees continue to access corporate data from their personal devices. While they may be doing it to get their work done faster, it can still expose your company to big risks. Desktop as a Service (DaaS) can help you support the on-the-move workforce without putting your organization’s security in jeopardy. You need to remember that DaaS can only be helpful to you under specific scenarios.

Selecting the Right DaaS Solution

To put it simply, DaaS desktops are like custom computers that are built according to the exact system specifications of the applications that you want to install on them. The biggest benefit of DaaS comes when it’s time to upgrade the system because with the entire hardware layer virtualized, it’s not as important as before, or as expensive.

Building and maintaining in-house VDI is complex, and requires a lot of time, effort, resources, expertise and budget. Employing a Desktop-as-a-Service model shifts that burden off in-house teams and onto a provider, allowing internal resources to focus on more strategic projects.

When trying to decide which DaaS provider to choose, there are four major areas that need consideration:

1. Support
2. Cost
3. Features
4. Infrastructure

Support

Evaluating support during the vetting and decision making process is important because some providers do not include any level of support in their offering unless you are willing to pay an additional fee.

Pre-Sales: Don’t underestimate the value of good support when implementing and maintaining DaaS. Finding a true business partner means building a relationship with the company you will be working with, and it starts with how they take care of you in the sales process. Ask questions like does the DaaS provider take time to understand your business and future goals? Do they illustrate technical and business expertise in configuring a custom solution for you?

During Project: Successful implementation can make or break a VDI deployment and your ability to manage it moving forward. Ask what level of support is provided during the project implementation as well as roles and responsibilities. This should encompass not only technical support requirements, but also how any obstacles that come up during the setup process that will be handled.

After-Sales: What level of ongoing support will your DaaS partner provide after deployment? Your organization’s time is important and if your desktop environment goes dark, business comes to a stop. Will your DaaS provider bring expert resources to bear 24x7x365 or will you have to rely on self-serve help documentation?

Cost

One of the key benefits of “as-a-service” consumption models is to shift capital expenses (CapEx) to operating expenses (OpEx) in order to decrease and plan for overall cost. DaaS is no different. The challenge, however, can come when comparing providers and the price vs. service they offer. A low price on the website certainly seems attractive, but it could be missing some essential components at the base price or leave you responsible for some key elements (such as antimalware, tuning and patching). Similarly, you may be able to “get” all the features you want at a lower price, but the quality of the service and end user experience could be worse than if you went with a different provider. Pay close attention to what you’re charged for and how you’re charged to ensure you fully understand the potential cost of your new DaaS solution.

Features

• Compliance
• Availability of Persistent and Non-persistent Desktops
• Single sign-on Capabilities
• Softphone Integration
• Multi-factor Authentication
• Application Virtualization
• Controls at the User and Group Policies Objects levels
• Endpoint Management
• Included Antivirus and Antimalware 

Infrastructure

One of the most important aspects of implementing a successful DaaS initiative is vetting the underlying infrastructure required to support a virtual desktop deployment. When evaluating potential DaaS providers, it’s vital that teams pay close attention to the solution’s underlying infrastructure to ensure it is able to meet expectations.

Storage Performance: Storage performance can directly impact user experience. To be sure that storage performance doesn’t negatively impact user experience; opt for a DaaS provider that employs robust solid state storage.

Resource Management: If you’re deploying DaaS as a replacement for hardware provisioning or to enable secure work at home and BYOD programs, ensuring a consistent, reliable desktop experience is key. For this you’ll need each virtual desktop to have dedicated (rather than shared) resources that meet your minimum computing needs.

Network Architecture: Look for an underlying network architecture that is structured to support an effective experience and protect performance at all levels.

Given the complexities of implementing desktop-as-a-service, businesses should take their time vetting potential vendors and involve IT in asking questions to understand how the solution will be implemented. The right solution can upgrade your desktop devices overnight, but the wrong one can handicap your efforts to build a more efficient, scalable enterprise!

Why USAM?
USAM is the ultimate resource for IT Support and Services in Chennai. USAM along with HP DaaS services helps your business to achieve the desired business goals by improving your network architecture, resource management, after-sales and pre-sales services.
To learn more, get in touch with us at marketing@usam.in.

HP Mobility Solutions

USAM: Offering Next Generation Enterprise Mobility!

As technology evolves, people are expecting to not only use their phones to manage their personal life but their professional life as well. In fact, the line has become so blurred that many don't acknowledge the term 'office hours' because work is always just a click away. They view mobile technology as a way to improve customer satisfaction and increase their profit margins. At the end of the day, enterprise mobility simply means that a company will attain higher profits based solely on its efficiency gains. You can expect to collect your data more efficiently. This helps you to make better decisions and allows you to share information in real-time.

Mobility: A Changing Paradigm

Thanks to enterprise mobility, more employees are able to work away from the office by using cloud services and mobile devices. This term refers not only to workers and their mobile devices, but also the mobility of corporate data as well. Enterprise mobility is driving value for new-age enterprises at a large scale.

Accelerating Value

Staying up to date with current technologies is crucial. Clients tend to be very judgmental when it comes to choosing the company they want to do business with. Falling short on the latest technologies may create a negative impact on their minds.

Improved Employee Productivity

Enterprise mobility management accelerates productivity of individual employees. In doing so, an enterprise mobility management solution allows digital communication and capability anywhere any time, and can lead to increased engagement and productivity.

Operational Speed and Efficiency

As everything is done through a mobile device with just a few clicks rather than the hassle of searching for a desktop device and then referring the task on hand, this speeds up the process considerably. Being able to access their work on any device from anywhere increases their efficiency, and eventually results in better outcomes. Also, eliminating time taken in searching for a computer, mobility integration provides faster reporting.

Employee Empowerment

Mobility makes updating work progress easier for employees. Moreover, it is easier to share data and quick information over mobile devices. This is especially more important while on the go. Thus, mobility in the enterprises is crucial for better collaboration among employees.

HP Mobility Solutions

HP can be your one-stop solution for an on-the-go workforce. In fact, HP’s suite of mobility products can outfit your entire organization’s unique needs – from petite handhelds to high-performance workstations. The innovations built into these offerings – like the HP Professional Innovations across the business notebook line – that can really make a difference in making the mobile computing experience more secure, reliable and easy.

HP offers a range of products like Mobile Workstations, Zstudio 15 and x360 EliteBook , the power and flexibility provided by these products in the mobility niche surely transform the way you work. They allow you to connect and collaborate in style with enterprise-class security.

USAM Advantage!

USAM is the ultimate resource for IT Support and Services in Chennai. USAM has helped businesses leverage the power of IT to create solutions that solve complex business challenges for more than a decade. We can help you decide if an enterprise mobility management solution is right for you with HP mobility solutions guaranteeing employee empowerment, enhancing operational speed and efficiency, improving employee productivity and increasing the quality of your business.

To learn more, get in touch with us at marketing@usam.in

Virtual Reality Solutions Bundle: What it is?

Everything that we cognize about our reality comes through our physical senses. In short, our entire reality is made up of a combination of sensory information and our brain trying to interpret that information. Therefore, if you can present your senses with made-up information, your perception of reality would also be affected in response. You would be presented with a glimpse of reality that isn’t really there, but can be perceived as real. Something we would refer to as a virtual reality.

A virtual environment should provide adeptness in real time- as the person explores his surroundings. The problems arise due to delays between the person’s actions and system latency which then disrupts his experience. In Augmented Reality (AR), the computer uses sensors and algorithms to determine the position and orientation of the camera. AR technology then renders the 3D graphics as they would appear from the viewpoint of the camera, overlaying the computer-generated images over a user’s view of the real-time events.

Benefits

There are many uses of VR which range from academic research to engineering, design, business, the arts and entertainment. Irrespective of usage, VR produces a set of data which can then develop new models, training methods, communication and interaction. In many ways the possibilities are endless. Virtual reality technology holds tremendous potential to change the future for a number of fields like medicine, business, architecture and manufacturing.

Applications

Medical professionals are using VR to heighten traditional therapy methods and find real-time location-based solutions for treatments of PTSD, anxiety and social disorders. Doctors are employing VR to train healthcare individuals in surgery, treat patients’ pains and even help paraplegics regain body movement. In business, a variety of industries are benefiting from VR. Carmakers are formulating safer vehicles, architects are designing stronger buildings and even travel agencies are using it to ease-out vacation planning.

Medical

Healthcare and dentistry students use VR to practice surgeries and procedures, allowing for a consequence free learning environment. Virtual patients can allow students to develop skills which can later be applied in the real world.

Mental Health

VR has become a key method for treating post-traumatic stress. Using VR exposure therapy, a person can re-enact a traumatic event.

Military

VR can put a trainee in a number of different situations, places and environments for flight simulations, battlefield simulations, medic training, vehicle simulation and virtual boot camp preparations. A key benefit for the use of VR in the military is the reduction in training costs.

Sports

It’s used as a training aid in many sports and to help measure athletic performance and analyze techniques. VR has also been used to enhance the viewer’s experience of a sporting event. Broadcasters are now streaming live games in virtual reality and preparing to one day sell “virtual tickets” to live games.

Education

Students are able to interact with each other and within a three dimensional environment. They can also be taken on virtual field trips: to museums, taking tours of the solar system and going back in time to different eras while simulating different environments.
Whether it is arduous, expensive or impractical to do something in reality, virtual reality is the answer. From novice fighter pilots to medical applications trainee surgeons, virtual reality allows us to afford virtual risks in order to gain real world experience. As the cost of virtual reality goes down you can expect more mainstream use cases, such as education or productivity applications. Virtual reality and augmented reality could change the way we humans interface with our digital technologies.

Examples of VR used by different industries

• Volvo XC 90 Luxury SUV, Volvo ran a huge campaign #volvoreality where they allowed the users to immerse themselves in a wonderful mountain drive all with the implementation of Virtual Reality.
• Matterport utilizes Virtual Reality and 3D involves all in one reality capture system with real estate tours in 4K resolution.
• King’s College Clinical Research use virtual reality for treating patients suffering from Bipolar Disorder.

HP VR Solutions

 The HP Z4, supports Intel Xeon or Core X processors as well as dual extreme graphics. Now you can experience VR with new HP Windows Mixed Reality Headset. A new HP VR launch kit will be offered to accelerate VR development and optimize VR deployment for high-fidelity use-cases. Also, expanding its Device as a Service (DaaS) offering to include Virtual Reality solutions.

HP VR Services

VR is a time consuming process. To elevate this, HP is shares its VR Launch Kit for Unreal Engine, a suite of tools based on the Unreal Engine. HP states this kit can accelerate development and deployment of VR by determining optimal computer configurations, automating the optimization of 3D engineering assets for Unreal’s development environment with Datasmith, and turnkey common interactions including parts explosion and model cross-sections.

Future VR trend

In the near future VR with inside-out capabilities has the chance to become an ultimate entertainment and content-consuming medium. In future we’ll see a wide range of tools that enable people to create and publish VR content. We already have a few great tools like Medium, Tilt Brush, and MindShow available. Developers can create WebVR apps simply. Also a total sense immersive experience is about to arrive.

Why USAM?

USAM is the ultimate resource for IT Support and Services in Chennai. Entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers to learn about the rapidly emerging field of reality technologies including Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality. Helping every industry across to upgrade their value by virtual reality and offering the customers an immersive experience to test the products well and then purchase thus increasing the sales power.

These technologies are cheaper and more numerous. We should expect to see more innovative uses for the technology in the future and new avenues in which we communicate and work thanks to the possibilities of virtual reality!

To learn more, get in touch with us at marketing@usam.in

Finding the Right Enterprise DaaS for You!

In a world of smartphones, tablets, and laptops, employees continue to access corporate data from their personal devices. While they may be doing it to get their work done faster, it can still expose your company to big risks. Desktop as a Service (DaaS) can help you support the on-the-move workforce without putting your organization’s security in jeopardy. You need to remember that DaaS can only be helpful to you under specific scenarios.

Selecting the Right DaaS Solution

To put it simply, DaaS desktops are like custom computers that are built according to the exact system specifications of the applications that you want to install on them. The biggest benefit of DaaS comes when it’s time to upgrade the system because with the entire hardware layer virtualized, it’s not as important as before, or as expensive.

When trying to decide which DaaS provider to choose, there are four major areas that need consideration:

• Support
• Cost
• Features
• Infrastructure
• Support

Evaluating support during the vetting and decision making process is important because some providers do not include any level of support in their offering unless you are willing to pay an additional fee.

Pre-Sales: Don’t underestimate the value of good support when implementing and maintaining DaaS. Finding a true business partner means building a relationship with the company you will be working with, and it starts with how they take care of you in the sales process.

During Project: Successful implementation can make or break a VDI deployment and your ability to manage it moving forward. Ask what level of support is provided during the project implementation as well as roles and responsibilities.

After-Sales: What level of ongoing support will your DaaS partner provide after deployment? Your organization’s time is important and if your desktop environment goes dark, business comes to a stop.

Cost

One of the key benefits of “as-a-service” consumption models is to shift capital expenses (CapEx) to operating expenses (OpEx) in order to decrease and plan for overall cost. DaaS is no different. The challenge, however, can come when comparing providers and the price vs. service they offer.

Features

• Compliance
• Availability of Persistent and Non-persistent Desktops
• Single sign-on Capabilities
• Softphone Integration
• Multi-factor Authentication
• Application Virtualization
• Controls at the User and Group Policies Objects levels
• Endpoint Management
• Included Antivirus and Antimalware
• 
  

Infrastructure

One of the most important aspects of implementing a successful DaaS initiative is vetting the underlying infrastructure required to support a virtual desktop deployment.

Storage Performance: Storage performance can directly impact user experience. To be sure that storage performance doesn’t negatively impact user experience; opt for a DaaS provider that employs robust solid state storage.

Resource Management: If you’re deploying DaaS as a replacement for hardware provisioning or to enable secure work at home and BYOD programs, ensuring a consistent, reliable desktop experience is key. For this you’ll need each virtual desktop to have dedicated (rather than shared) resources that meet your minimum computing needs.

Network Architecture: Look for an underlying network architecture that is structured to support an effective experience and protect performance at all levels.

Why USAM?

USAM is the ultimate resource for IT Support and Services in Chennai. USAM along with HP DaaS services helps your business to achieve the desired business goals by improving your network architecture, resource management, after-sales and pre-sales services.

To learn more, get in touch with us at marketing@usam.in